Best sadness & ideas Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“More than any other personality trait, my mother seemed to be ruled by anger and sadness. She seemed to hate being a mother. Watching her unhappiness as I grew up made me conclude that the answer was to try and be as unemotional as I could, which many therapists have taught me is a bad idea. It also made me want to avoid marriage and having children.”

“The concept of 'Momism' is male nonsense. It is the refuge of a man seeking excuses for his own lack of virility. I have listened to many women in various countries, and I have never found a woman who willingly 'mothers' her husband. The very idea is repulsive to her. She wants to mother the children while they are young, but never their fathers. True, she may be forced into the role of mother by a man's weaknesses and childishness, and then she accepts the role with dignity and patience, or with anger and impatience, but always with a secret, profound sadness unexpressed and inexpressible.”

“I wonder how it is that so cheerful-looking a tree as the willow should ever have become associated with ideas of sadness.”

Should Ideas Wonder Tree Sadness Cheerful Tree Trunks

Book:The Sylvan Year: Leaves from the Note Book of Roaul Dubois. [Also The Unknown River. An Etcher's Voyage of Discovery]

Source: The Sylvan Year: Leaves from the Note Book of Roaul Dubois. [Also The Unknown River. An Etcher's Voyage of Discovery]

“You who have never “been there” in the throes of grief, have no idea what is going on inside the head of the grieving spouse: the scattered thoughts, the constant worry that we will forget something or someone in our fog-induced state, that strange feeling of not quite “being all there” when out in social situations, the pall that covers everything, like a cloak of sadness that never lifts.”

Ideas States Feelings Social Forget Grief Situation Worry Sadness Strange Constant Lifts No Idea Grieving Spouse Fog Cloaks

Author:Mary Potter

“When I saw the sun bears at the Oakland Zoo, I immediately was drawn to them. Not to be ornery, but regarding what you said about the speaker identifying with the bear: I'm not sure it's exactly right to say that the speaker feels that the bear must share his sadness, or whatever else he is feeling. That would be classic pathetic fallacy, which is certainly generative for poetry, but here the speaker appears actually to be rejecting that idea.”

Feels Said Ideas Feelings Would Be Sun Saws Sadness Share Bears Classic Not Sure Speakers Pathetic Fallacy Zoos Identifying Rejecting Oakland Ornery

Author:Matthew Zapruder

“Well, I'm drawn to stuff that is darker. I will probably do a version of Jane Austen at some point because her books are really well known. Unfortunately they've been parodied to death, but they're so well known that I feel like I should approach it and I think I have an idea that will definitely spin it in a different way. There's melancholy and sadness around the edges. I haven't read all of her books, but it seems they often have... essentially happy endings?”

Thinking Way Feels Should Wells Book Ideas Different Seems Stuff Known Sadness Havens Approach Edges Versions Different Ways Melancholy Well Known Jane Happy Endings Austen

Author:Robert Sikoryak

“I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.”

Thinking Feels Trying Has Beens Ideas Ends Hate Culture Space Sadness Taught Grew Grew Up Connections Towns Shame Aesthetic Sentimental Promoting

Author:Mike Mills

“Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.”

Life Kind Ideas Matter Life Is Fall Easy Sadness Weakness Raises Misery Confusion All Kinds Frustration Cynicism Great Idea Baseness Perfidy Frustration In Life

Author:Leon Trotsky

“My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else. Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.”

Thinking Firsts Ideas My Own Sin Virtue Sadness Humility Optimism Active Pity Shock Repentance Rejoice Amendments Concrete Assistance Cheerful Apostolic Restitution Disobeying

Author:C. S. Lewis

“I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.”

Inspirational Children Ideas Motivational Would Be My Own Healing Sadness Childhood Parenting Heal No Idea Healed Mothering

Author:Susie Bright

“Ester asked why people are sad. "That’s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams.”

People Ifs Men Life Believe Persons Ideas Dream Life Is Asks Memories Simple Forget Plans Sadness Aim Old Man Prisoner Life And Love Personal History Zahir

Author:Paulo Coelho

“The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if the ideas contained in the book are disappearing as the pages turn to ashes and the cover and binding--which is the term for the stitching and glue that holds the pages together--blacken and curl as the flames do their wicked work. When someone is burning a book, they are showing utter contempt for all of the thinking that produced its ideas, all of the labor that went into its words and sentences, and all of the trouble that befell the author . . .”

“Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don't give the matter much thought. Others make plans: I'm going to have a husband, a home, two children, a house in the country. As long as they're busy doing that, they're like bulls looking for the bullfighter: they react instinctively, they blunder on, with no idea where the target is. They get their car, sometimes they even get a Ferrari, and they think that's the meaning of life, and they never question it. Yet their eyes betray the sadness that even they don't know they carry in their soul. Are you happy?”

“Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places — which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.”

Ideas Seems Sadness Connections Breathe Chains Carrie Recollection Present Time

Book:Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)

“If, on thinking this, I look up to see if reality can quench my thirst, I see inexpressive facades, inexpressive faces, inexpressive gestures. Stones, bodies, ideas - all dead. All movements are one great standstill. Nothing means anything to me, not because it's unfamiliar but because I don't know what it is. The world has slipped away. And in the bottom of my soul - as the only reality of this moment - there's an intense and invisible grief, a sadness like the sound of someone crying in a dark room.”

“There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness of life lies in that fact. In the course of a single second, our senses of sight, of hearing, of smell, register (knowingly or not) a swarm of events and a parade of sensations and ideas passes through our head. Each instant represents a little universe, irrevocably forgotten in the next instant.”

“She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.”

Ideas Lost Sadness No Idea Visible

Book:Every Day

Source: Every Day

“Looking at the elementary schoolers in their colorful T-shirts from various day camps, Percy felt a twinge of sadness. He should be at Camp Half-Blood right now, settling into his cabin for the summer, teaching sword-fighting lessons in the arena, playing pranks on the other counselors. These kids had no idea just how crazy a summer camp could be.”

“The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.”

Littles Ideas Real Change Creativity Sadness Innovation Fifty Birthday

Book:The Unfinished Country

Source: The Unfinished Country

“One of the great sadnesses of modern life, because of our disenfranchisement and disillusionment with religion, is that we don't have access to these ideas. Yoga and meditation, for me, is a way of, in this secular world, accessing very very beautiful principles that would perhaps make us happier, at a time when people feel disillusioned with the economy, concerned about the ecology, worried with politicians, and don't trust what they're being told on television.”

“Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quiet.”

Thinking Kind Ideas Artist Interesting Sadness Quiet Setting Settings Loud Very Interesting Default Interesting Ideas

Author:Glen Hansard

“The World is not an idea as asserted by philosophers who have dedicated their entire lives to the exploration of ideas. First and foremost the world is passion. But passion is associated with sadness. Sadness does not only arise from death which makes us face the Eternity, but also from life which causes us to confront the Time.”

World Firsts Doe Ideas Faces Passion Causes Sadness Eternity Philosopher Arise Exploration Dedicated

Author:Nikolai Berdyaev

“Music is always a healer. Music has never let me down. I know it’s my religion. There’s the idea that you can’t truly know happiness until you know sadness, so how can you heal yourself unless you’ve hurt yourself? I’m still figuring out who I am, but I know that I’m not who I was.”

Knows Stills Ideas Hurt Sadness Music Is Let Me Heal Who I Am Healer Let Me Down

Author:Brendon Urie

“So many things suddenly made sense for the clowns, for the whole idea. I’d been going through a struggle, particularly after 9/11; I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to say. I still wanted the work to be the same kind of mixture – intense, with a nasty side or an ugly side, but also with a real pathos about the characters – and clowns have an underlying sense of sadness while they’re trying to cheer people up. Clowns are sad, but they’re also psychotically, hysterically happy.”

People Trying Kind Made Stills Ideas Real Whole Character Wanted Sides Struggle Sadness Figures Ugly Intense Cheer Nasty Clown Mixtures Pathos

Author:Cindy Sherman

“By the time I actually recorded Bitter Tears I carried a heavy load of sadness and outrage; I felt every word of those songs... I expected there to be trouble with that album, and there was.... when it was released, many radio stations wouldn't play it.... The very idea of unconventional or even original ideas ending up on "country" radio in the late 1990s is absurd.”

Ideas Country Play Song Felt Trouble Sadness Media Tears Late Originals Radio Albums Heavy Expected Absurd Bitter Stations Load Outrage Original Ideas Unconventional Radio Stations Heavy Loads

Author:Johnny Cash

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